Originally Posted by
96SS
Thanks to the FA hitting the guy in the head with the coffee pot, it is now a bloody mess that is now that much harder to control. Try taking someone bloody into custody while they are resisting, it is not easy for anyone. And head wounds bleed so much more. And the haz-mat of that blood if the guy wanted to fight.
Or perhaps someone was in the galley when a nutty passenger comes up and starts trying to open the door, and an unsuspecting flight attendant didn’t have time to take stock of the options to prevent someone from doing something awful and instead had to make a snap decision.
Originally Posted by
mvoight
He'd have to be Superman to be able to open the door at that altitude.
The air pressure difference would make it impossible for him to pull the door inward for it to be opened
I wouldn’t expect an FA to know which aircraft have plug doors and which do not, or how much altitude the aircraft would need to render the door impossible to open. I have to say, if I were in the bulkhead and saw a passenger trying to open a door, I would probably take immediate action to hinder and restrain the passenger even knowing that the door would be inhumanly impossible to open.